218 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
properties.” (Christy’s New Commercial Plants, No. 7, p. 
50. 1884). 
The fruit is employed as a medicine by the Santals, in 
diarrhoea and dysentery. The root pounded is also prescribed 
for the same diseases, and powdered in water is applied 
externally to hasten suppuration, and as a dressing for 
wounds. The paste dries and forms a hard coating, thus 
effectually excluding air from the raw surface (Revd. A. 
Campbell.) 
193. Triumfettci rhomboidea, Jacquin, h.f.b.i., 
i. 395. Roxb., 390 and 391. 
Sansk : — Jhinjharitfi, (J. Indraji). 
Vern. : — Cbitki, Chiriyari (H.) ; Bun-okra (B.) ; Aodaiotti 
(Tam.) NichSrdi (Bomb.). Jhinjudi; Nichardi (Marathi). 
Habitat : — Throughout tropical and sub-tropical India, 
and Ceylon, a very common weed. It grows wild and freely on 
Matheran Hill.— K. R. Kirtikar. 
An annual or perennial herb, l|-3 ft., slightly branched ; 
branches pubescent, with simple hairs. Leaves 1-2| in., vari- 
able, the lower more or less deeply 3-fid., the upper ovate- 
lanceolate, all coarsely and irregulary serrate, simply hairy on 
both sides ; often tomentose and white beneath. Petiole of 
lower leaves long, of upper leaves very short. Flowers small, 
•f in. diam., yellow, on short pedicels, clusters crowded into a 
spicate inflorescence at end of branches, buds oblong, slightly 
stellate-pubescent ; -petals equalling sepals. Stamens 8-15. 
Fruit very small, globose, £in., finely tomentose, spines l6ss 
than |in., glabrous, hooked, cells 3-4. 
Parts used : —The fruit, flowers and leaves. 
Uses : — The mucilaginous and astringent properties of the 
leaves and fruits of certain Triumfettas, called Carapixo de 
Galeada in Brazil, which grow everywhere in that country, 
especially .on the roadside, and in the vicinity of dwellings, 
render them serviceable in injections for inveterate gonorrhoea. 
